Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been released. Finally some good news from Myanmar. It’s being reported worldwide so read all about it.
The Pink Stinks website endorses a campaign “that challenges the culture of pink which invades every aspect of girls’ lives.” Their message is that “body image obsession is starting younger and younger, and that the seeds are sown during the pink stage, as young girls are taught the boundaries within which they will grow up, […]
Positive news does come out of Africa. For example, the largest African film festival, Africa in Motion, featuring 70 films from 28 countries, is currently taking place in Scotland, the 5th such festival to date. This year’s theme is celebrations. Other examples: South Africa and India are joining forces on HIV vaccine research; Uganda receives […]
In case you missed it, in “Boast, build and sell” (International Herald Tribune, 24 September 2010), Nicholas D. Kristof offers three suggestions to improve humanitarian assistance in fighting poverty:1. Spread the good news: the fight against poverty currently saves the lives of approximately 32,000 children daily (around 22,0o0 children die per day at present against […]
As of now, more than one million people have signed the petition that you will find at http://www.1billionhungry.org/ If you are mad as hell, if you “find it unacceptable that close to one billion people are chronically hungry” then sign the petition. Its aims: “Through the United Nations, we call upon governments to make the […]
This story begins in December 2009 under the “village tree” of Gorin, in northern Burkina Faso. The “ancients” and the women welcomed members of Kaicedra to their town and asked their help in providing an adequate learning environment for their children. With their meager means, the community had built a temporary shelter that was bound […]
Launched in 2008, Mozambique’s biggest circulation weekly @Verdade, which reaches more than 400,000 people in that south-eastern African country, is the nation’s first high-quality, free newspaper. According to its founder, Erik Charas, “@Verdade was really created to bring out good values and positive morals as well as to raise our society to the levels we […]
Kenyan company Ushahidi is a free, open source or shared platform designed to crowdsource (use a community or large group of people to accomplish particular goals), amass and map crisis information from numerous sources in real time, including via text message, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, media sources and e-mail. Ushahidi can thus track real-time information, but […]
